CPS Decision to Close 4 Englewood (Chicago) Schools Sparks Outcry #RahmHatesUs

[DirtyD]

After a long and contentious battle, the Chicago Board of Education has voted unanimously to close four schools in the city’s Englewood neighborhood.

Harper, Hope, Robeson, and Team Englewood High Schools will soon close to make way for a new school, but after years of opposition to the idea, community leaders are angry about the decision.

“They’re not about moving children into better schools,” Catherine Hencheck of Parents for Teachers said. “They’re about destabilizing black and brown communities. These closings are a scam.”

Decision to Close 4 Englewood Schools Sparks Outcry







Anyone from Chicago have an opinion? Tried to find more info, but doesn't seem to be getting much coverage.

 

[The Blackout]

from the chi.

don’t have much info on this particular subject.

but I can tell you this for sure, rahm’s only concern is about giving downtown businesses a facelift, fattening up the pockets of residential developers and expanding the new Ohare airport to make it a world renowned state of the art international travel destination.

oh, and he’s a democratic bf of obama

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Am in Chicago. No right answers. Everyone is crooked as fuk. The most thoroughly corrupt place I’ve ever seen. Top to bottom, left to right.

 

[88m3]

What are they doing with all the kids and what are they doing with all the teachers?

 

[DirtyD]

What are they doing with all the kids and what are they doing with all the teachers?

Students at the schools will be allowed to remain at three of the four institutions until they graduate, instead of being forced out in the summer of 2018. Robeson will close this summer however, so that work can begin on a new $85 million state-of-the-art school

Decision to Close 4 Englewood Schools Sparks Outcry

 

[Rice N Beans]

This was more the Board than Rahm to be honest. I'm actually surprised they voted yes on the closings. But it was their decision.

Kind of a shame too. The Board usually doesn't like Rahm and neither do the teachers union.